by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
Barack Obama articulated his Christian faith thus dispelling rumours he is a Muslim. John McCain demonstrated an ability to electrify evangelical Christians. And Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren proved Americans can discuss religion and politics without the...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 21, 2008
The United Kingdom rates committed campaigners such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King far more highly than celebrities such as Sir Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie, and more than one in ten would be prepared to break the law to campaign for a cause they believed...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Predicting the future is always a precarious business. But when it comes to the relationship between Christianity and public life there are some pretty clear trends which provide enough evidence to make at least a few credible assertions about what the next few years...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
Well, am I a political junkie? Certainly, I used to be one. That became apparent to me back during the closing phase of the 1992 US presidential campaign, when I was doing a lot of travel for Friends World Committee for Consultation. One of those trips, just before...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 1, 2008
Christmas and New Year may be a time for giving, but in the political world there’s little room for sentiment, and it has been taking that’s featured on the agenda in recent weeks. Given the noted commitment of party fixers to ‘risk management’, you’d have thought...
